Hermes is great and works very well, but it would be awesome if a native Telepathy backend for Facebook is created such that the contacts that come out of that have things like birthday and photo already in there. This would mean there would be no need for syncing manually. The merge contacts feature in contacts would handle the manual stuff that Hermes will soon have.

This of course could apply for other social services, Facebook is just an example.

Latest activities to brainstorm Automatically grab avatars from social services for Contacts app